In early January, the Department of Homeland Security carried out a series of home raids to deport hundreds of men, women, and children who had fled "shockingly high levels of gang and drug violence, hunger and poverty" in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. The New York Times highlighted the contradiction between the raids and what President Obama had said in November 2014 about his administration's deportation priorities: “We’ll keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security. That means felons, not families. That means criminals, not children. It means gang members, not moms who are trying to put food on the table for their kids.”